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...Outgoing co-chair Harriet T. Vostock ‘02 expressed her appreciation of a handful of Doritos by saying, “Amazing!” Things Vostock has previously dubbed “Amazing!” include: the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; the title “The Invasian”; wheels; being in a loving relationship with a cat; the fact that the Earth orbits the sun; stuff: “just. like, stuff”; countless suck-ass article ideas; and fluorescent lights...
...entirely different kind of observation--the long-standing search for lumpiness in the cosmic background radiation--now suggests independently that dark energy is real. The lumps themselves were first detected about a decade ago, thanks to the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. At the time, astrophysicist and COBE spokesman George Smoot declared that "if you're religious, it's like seeing...
...cannot endorse the gutting of vital government services that benefit all Americans to fund an unneeded tax cut that almost exclusively helps the rich. Not since the days of the Smoot-Hawley tariff has such a bad idea gained such wide currency. Democrats and responsible Republicans should rally behind their smaller, fairer alternative. They should campaign to delay the passage of tax bills until the final budget is agreed upon, and they should take Greenspan's advice and tie any tax cuts to successful reduction of the national debt...
...presidential talents notwithstanding, Hoover's one term administration proved astoundingly incompetent. Ever the tinkerer, when the Crash of '29 struck, he strove to intervene, mounting what "progressive" economists dubbed "a new attack on poverty." Big businesses were prodded to keep wages high, resulting in massive, intractable unemployment. The infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff was enacted, leading to the implosion of international trade. And tax rates were hiked drastically on both incomes and profits, driving the private sector ever further into...
...Gore didn't give Perot the economics debate he wanted, instead targeting Perot's obvious weak spot: his temperament. With King obliging as ever, Gore dredged up the disastrous (and catchily named) Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, a facile comparison of eras that worked perfectly. Gore handed Perot a framed picture of the pair; he interrupted Perot incessantly, made him lose his temper. Gore's decisive victory was the saving of NAFTA and the beginning of the end of Perot as even a semi-serious public figure...